infection control

Question 1

patient who has varicella(chicken pox)

Answer 1

• mask
• goggles
• gloves
• gown

Question 2

patient who has C.diff

Answer 2

• gown
  -goggles

Question 3

patient who has influenza

Answer 3

• mask
• gloves
• gown

Question 4

What PPE should you put on if your patient just had a knee replacement?

Answer 4

gloves

Question 5

What is the infection control purpose

Answer 5

removing disease causing micro-organisms from the heath care environment

Question 6

As a PCT, what is your vital role in infection control

Answer 6

1. handwashing
2. proper disposal of equipment
3. Proper PPE

Question 7

immunocompromised

Answer 7

having an impaired immune response, usually as a result of disease, medication therapy, or surgery

Question 8

medical asepsis goals

Answer 8

• clean technique
• reduce number of microorganisms & stop growth

Question 9

surgical asepsis goal

Answer 9

• sterile technique
• completely remove microorganisms

Question 10

surgical asepsis guidelines

Answer 10

• sterile objects comes into contact only w/ other sterile objects
• any doubt is considered nonsterile
• only essential staff needed
• never leave sterile field
• exposed to air for certain amount of time b/c it causes contamination
• comes in contact w/ anything contaminated it is contaminated

Question 11

chain of infection

Answer 11

pathogen&raquo_space; reservoir» portal of entry» mode of transmission» portal of exit» susceptible host&raquo_space;

Question 12

acute infection

Answer 12

comes rapidly, w/ serve but short-lived effects

Question 13

chronic infections

Answer 13

an infection of long duriation

Question 14

latent infection

Answer 14

persistent infection w/ recurrent symptoms “come and go”

Question 15

opportunistic infection

Answer 15

caused by pathogens that do not normally produce illness in healthy humans

Question 16

standard precautions

Answer 16

a strict form of infection control is based on the assumption that all blood & other body fluids are infectious

Question 17

droplet precautions

Answer 17

must be followed for a patient know or suspected to be infected with pathogens transmitted by large-particle droplets expelled during coughing, sneezing, talking, or laughing

Question 18

airborne precautions

Answer 18

methods of infection control that must be used for patients know or suspected to be infected with pathogens transmitted by airborne droplet nuclei

Question 19

contact precautions

Answer 19

practices used to prevent spread of disease by direct or indirect contact
(MRSA, C.diff, scabies, herpes simplex wound, & skin infections)

Question 20

Infections that require droplet precaution

Answer 20

rubella, meningitis, mumps, pertussis, influenza, and other respiratory infections

Question 21

infections that require airborne precautions

Answer 21

varicella, tuberculosis, measles

Question 22

infections that require contact precautions

Answer 22

diphtheria, herpes simple, scabies, hepatitis A, respiratory syncytial virus, and other wound infections like MRSA, VRE, and C.diff

Question 23

autoclave can be used to

Answer 23

sterilize medical equipment